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The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

— Francis William Bourdillon

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More quotes by Francis William Bourdillon

I walk as one unclothed of flesh,
I wash my spirit clean;
I see old miracles afresh,
And wonders yet unseen.

Slowly the joy of flower and bird
Did like a tide withdraw;
And in the heaven a silent star
Smiled on me, infinitely far.

The Night has a thousand eyes,
The Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

Sudden thy silent beauty on me shone,
Fair as the moon had given thee all her spell.

As strong, as deep, as wide as is the sea,
Though by the wind made restless as the wind,
By billows fretted and by rocks confined,
So strong, so deep, so wide my love for thee.

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